Family Fortunes hire · a big-screen game
Hire Family Fortunes for your event.
“We asked 100 people…” Four words and the whole room already knows the rules. Two teams go head to head guessing the top answers to a survey, dodging three strikes to bank the pot and steal the round, live on one big screen, run from my own software.
Signature move: the whole room split into two sides, players rotated every round, so nearly everyone gets a go at the front.
How a round plays
How a round of Family Fortunes works.
The surveys are written around your company, your departments, your in-jokes, your industry, which is exactly why the answers land in a way no off-the-shelf quiz ever does.
Two teams, one board
Split the room into two sides. The board shows a survey question with the top answers hidden behind numbered panels.
1Guess the survey
Each side calls out answers. The popular ones flip up with a ding and score; the duds earn a strike and a groan from the room.
2
Three strikes and steal
Three strikes hands the other team one guess to steal the whole pot, the moment every round turns on.
3
In among the tables, every round Fast money finish
The classic two-player fast-money round closes the game, with a live 30-second clock on the big screen.
4Running the room from the floor
On the big screen
The real screens, not a mock-up.
Every screen on this page is my own software running live, captured at the size a projector throws. It is one of nine big-screen games in the same app, run from a phone in my hand at the microphone, with the sound, the strikes and the scores built in.
Three ways to play
Three ways to play Family Fortunes.
Every game I run can be played three ways, and I pick the way that suits the room, the timings and the layout on the night: as a show at the front, table against table, or with every single guest playing on their own phone. Mix them across an evening and nobody spends the night watching.
As a show
Two teams at the board, the room shouting the answers
The television version. Two teams face the board, three strikes, the steal and a fast-money finale with the clock running. I split the whole room into two sides and rotate the players every round, so as many people as possible get to the front and nobody is up there long enough to get nervous.
Best for: awards nights and gala dinnersAt the tables
Every table guesses the survey
The board goes up and every table writes its top three answers before anything is revealed. Points for every answer on the board, a bonus for the number one, and the leaderboard by table. The steal becomes a table-against-table argument, which is better television than the original.
Best for: conference dinners and Christmas partiesOn the app
The survey is your room
On phones it becomes Common Ground: everyone votes, and you score for matching what the room said. Same shape, three hundred players, and the survey is the people sitting around you rather than a hundred strangers. Side Bets can run on whether the next answer is on the board.
Best for: whole-company nightsBuilt for the room
Same game. Two very different rooms.
I customise every game for the audience in front of me: the questions, the answers, and the way I present them. The same format is a completely different show for a room of graduates in their twenties and a room of chief executives, and it should be. I write for the people who will actually be there, then I speak into the listening on the night: I read what the room is giving back and change gear to match it.
Quick, cheeky and about them
- A survey I would write
We asked the office: name something you have said in a meeting that you did not mean.
Answers that the room will recognise instantly.- How I host it
- Fast rounds, players rotated every question, and I play up every strike. The steal is a full-room shout.
- What lands
- Watching a new starter get the number one answer and the whole room lose it.
Same board, drier and slower
- A survey I would write
We asked your customers: the first word that comes to mind when they hear your company’s name.
Real answers, gathered before the night, with a couple of surprises.- How I host it
- I give the reveals room. A director guessing the top answer about their own customers, and being wrong, is a moment worth a pause.
- What lands
- Finding out what the company actually thinks, disguised as a game.
1Written for your people
Send me the year’s stories, the in-jokes, the departments and the industry. The rounds are built from them, so the answers land in a way no off-the-shelf pack ever can.
2Speaking into the listening
The words on the screen are half of it. How I present them is the rest, and I pitch the pace, the teasing and the tone to the room that has turned up, not the one on the brief.
3If a different crowd turns up
Eight hundred events across festivals, awards, conferences and dinners means I have hosted every kind of room. If the mood is not what anyone expected, I change the style on the spot, and often the questions too.
In the running order
Where Family Fortunes fits in the night.
Where it sits in the night
The centrepiece after dinner, or the game everyone knows to open the entertainment with.
How long
Twenty to thirty minutes for a full game with fast money. A single round makes a five-minute filler between courses.
Pairs well with
Run Side Bets on whether the next answer is on the board, and use Common Ground to get the whole room voting first.
“It’s the fastest game there is to explain. Nobody needs a rulebook, they need a microphone in their face and a room shouting the answer at them.”
All fourteen games
Fourteen games. One host. One screen.
Five rounds the whole room plays on their phones, and nine big-screen games with teams at the board. All of it is my own software, run from one screen, so I can switch format the moment the room needs a lift. Tap any game to see exactly how it plays.
Common Ground
Vote with the room, score for matching it
How it plays →On your phone
Who’s Bluffing?
Three stories, one true, the room decides
How it plays →On your phone
The Final Few
A knockout quiz down to the last few standing
How it plays →On your phone
Side Bets
Play money on what happens next on stage
How it plays →On your phone
The Cut
Everyone answers, the lowest scores are cut
How it plays →Big screenThis pageFamily Fortunes
Two teams, one survey board, three strikes
You are hereBig screen
Quiz Show
Categories, buzzers and picture rounds
How it plays →Big screen
Play Your Cards Right
Higher or lower on a row of giant cards
How it plays →Big screen
What the Blank
Fill the gap, match the room’s funniest answers
How it plays →Big screen
Guess the Phrase
A hidden phrase, one letter at a time
How it plays →Big screen
Category Clues
Describe it without saying it, against the clock
How it plays →Big screen
Scavenger Hunt
The whole room up, hunting and mixing
How it plays →Big screen
The Generation Game
The conveyor belt of prizes to remember
How it plays →Big screen
Bongo Bingo
Rave bingo with dance breaks and forfeits
How it plays →Every one of these can be played as a show, at the tables or on the app, and every one is written around your company before the night. Not sure which mix suits your event? Tell me the room and I will suggest a running order.
What’s included
Everything that comes with Family Fortunes.
- Survey questions written around your company
- Hosted live from the microphone, start to finish
- The board, sound and strikes on your big screen
- Fast-money finale with a live clock
- My own software, I bring and run it
- Works for 20 guests or 300
It is the perfect game for a mixed corporate crowd, where some people came to compete and some came for the bar: everyone can shout a survey answer. I run it live, so the pace, the teasing and the big reveals are worked for the room in front of me, not clicked through on a laptop. If you want a whole evening built around it, see corporate game show hire; if you’d rather a phone-based quiz, see quiz master hire.
What clients say
Kevin recently hosted a company corporate event and proved to be the consummate professional throughout the evening. He has the unique ability to read a room and keep everyone happy.
Kevin hosted our staff conference event this year which was fantastic. He brought an energy and enthusiasm with him and played a really important part in getting people engaged in the day.
Thank you Kevin for hosting our Christmas party in December 2025. The team had an amazing time. We really liked the intertwining of awards and the game. Everyone had a brilliant time and Kevin was fantastic.
Good to know
Family Fortunes hire FAQs.
Is this the real Family Fortunes?
It is my own recreation, built as software specifically for live events, the format everyone knows, with survey questions written around your company rather than a licensed TV product.
Can the survey questions be about our company?
Yes, that is the best part. I write surveys around your business, your teams and your industry, alongside general ones, so the answers get the biggest laughs.
How many people can play?
Two teams play the board at once, but the whole room is in it, shouting answers, groaning at the strikes. It works from 20 guests to a few hundred.
What do you need at the venue?
A screen or projector I can plug into, and a microphone. I bring and run the software myself, and there is nothing for your venue to install.
Can it be played at the tables or on phones rather than as a show?
Yes. Every game I run can be played three ways: as a show with teams at the front, table against table, or with every guest on their own phone through Play Along. I pick the mix that suits your room and the running order, and I often use all three in one night.
What does it cost?
Fees are quoted individually for the date, the venue and the length of the show. Send the numbers and the running order and I will send a quote.
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Enquiries
Want Family Fortunes at your event?
Tell me the room and the numbers and I will run Family Fortunes for your crowd. Hosted right across the UK.
